WATER FOLK "RECONSTRUCTING AN ANCIENT AQUATIC LIFEWAY IN MICHOACÁN, WESTERN MEXICO"

WILLIAMS, EDUARDO

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ISBN:978-1-4073-1252-1
EAN:9781407312521
Editorial: BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS
Fecha de la edición:2014
Número de la edición: 1
Colección: nº S2617
Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:118
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This study of subsistence activities (fishing, hunting, gathering, and manufacture) in the Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro lake basins (Michoacán, Western Mexico) underscores the value of ethnoarchaeology as a tool for reconstructing the ancient aquatic lifeway in the territory of the Protohistoric Tarascan state (ca. AD 1450-1530), which flourished in an environment dominated by lakes, rivers, swamps and marshes. Mesoamerica was the only civilization in the ancient world that lacked major domesticated sources of animal protein; therefore, abundant wild aquatic species (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and plants, etc.) all played strategic roles in the diet and economy of most Mesoamerican cultures, including the Tarascans.